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Kate Baldwin, newly named as the Peter Strauss Family Assistant Professor of Political Science, focuses her research on political accountability, state building, and the politics of development, with...
On July 1, while Americans prepared to celebrate the Fourth, Canadians celebrated Canada Day and, this year, the 150th anniversary of the British North America Act 1867. In that year, the British...
Muslims consider mosques to be the houses of God, the bayt Allah. They are places of worship, sanctuaries, and where Muslim communities come together. The first mosque, which was a modest structure...
Clara Molot, who will be attending Yale in the fall, wrote the following essay after attending the African Literature Association’s 2017 Annual Conference hosted by Yale University June 14-17. The...
Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center at Yale University, has contributed an article to the new issue of Daedalus, the journal of the...
Refugees from war-torn regions around the world are coming to Connecticut in growing numbers, bringing with them new languages, customs, and cultures. On June 28, a policy forum, “Coming to...
On June 21, Gilder Lehrman Center Director David Blight and GLC summer intern Ry Walker (YC 2020) addressed a group of elementary, middle, and high school teachers at a New Haven monument to the 29th...
June 16 was the final day of excavations at Tel Shiloh for the 2017 season. Previous to this year, I had three years of archaeological field experience, but this was my first leading my own square as...
On Sunday, in the second round of elections for the French National Assembly, newly-elected French President Emmanuel Macron’s La République En Marche (Republic On the Move), with its centrist ally,...
Refugees from war-torn regions around the world are coming to Connecticut in growing numbers, bringing with them new languages, customs, and cultures. The public is invited to attend a policy forum...
On June 15, Simon Gikandi, Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University, gave a keynote lecture on “African Literature in the World: Imagining a Post-Colonial Public Sphere” at the ...
Reverend Loretta Opara set the mood for the panel on “Reviving the Voice and Rights of African Children in Literature” by charming the ten delegates present into singing along to an Igbo folk song...